{"id":1407,"date":"2021-09-27T16:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a2kadvisory.com\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2021-09-27T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T14:33:11","slug":"husband-wife-team-worth-12-billion-after-latest-canva-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a2kadvisory.com\/fr\/2021\/09\/27\/husband-wife-team-worth-12-billion-after-latest-canva-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband-Wife Team Worth $12 Billion After Latest Canva Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It all began with millennial angst at user-unfriendly software.\u00a0<\/p>

While teaching design programs part-time in 2008 when she was at university in Perth, Australia,\u00a0Melanie Perkins<\/a>\u00a0grew frustrated with the clunky desktop-based tools she was helping her students understand.<\/p>

\u201cFacebook was taking off at the time \u2014 people could jump in and use that so easily and yet design tools took years of training to learn,\u201d Perkins recalled in a\u00a0Medium post in 2018<\/a>. \u201cI wanted to make design software simple, online and collaborative.\u201d<\/p>

It was a winning formula. A funding round last week\u00a0valued their\u00a0graphic design company, Canva, at $40 billion. That gave Perkins, 34, and her husband and co-founder\u00a0Cliff Obrecht<\/a>, 35, a fortune of $5.9 billion each, according to the\u00a0Bloomberg Billionaires Index<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>

The latest funding round makes the Sydney-based firm the fifth-largest startup in the world, according to\u00a0data<\/a>\u00a0from research firm CB Insights, and Perkins the richest self-made female billionaire under the age of 40. Among Canva\u2019s investors are Franklin Templeton and Sequoia Capital Global Equities.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Perkins and Obrecht, who married earlier this year,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview this week that they aren\u2019t slowing down. \u201cWe want to build one of the world\u2019s most valuable companies,\u201d said Perkins, who is chief executive officer. \u201cWe\u2019re moving in the right direction, but we\u2019re not there yet.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Canva users have created more than 7 billion designs, but Perkins wants it to become ubiquitous. That includes ultimately replacing PDF resumes with responsive web-based tools.<\/p>

She and Obrecht own at least 30% of the company, Perkins disclosed in\u00a0a Medium post<\/a>\u00a0that accompanied news of the company\u2019s valuation. A former Google employee, Cameron Adams, is also a co-founder, though the size of his stake hasn\u2019t been disclosed.<\/p>

A Canva spokesperson, Lachlan Andrews, declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>

Canva is popular with bloggers, students and marketers who can select templates and then customize them to make logos, resumes, flyers or even T-shirt designs. Its tools are used by more than 10 million students and teachers, as well as companies including American Airlines Group Inc., Zoom Video Communications Inc., SkyScanner, Intel Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc. and Marriott International Inc., according to Perkins. Canva says that it\u2019s on track to surpass $1 billion in annualized revenue by year-end.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The pair\u2019s new fortune makes them the 9th- and 10th-richest people in Australia, according to the Bloomberg index. While the country\u2019s fortunes have long been linked to commodities industries, Perkins and Obrecht join a group that\u2019s topped by fellow tech founders\u00a0Mike Cannon-Brookes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Scott Farquhar<\/a>\u00a0of Atlassian, a software-development company.\u00a0<\/p>

Perkins also becomes Australia\u2019s second-richest woman after\u00a0Gina Rinehart<\/a>, 67, who has a net\u00a0worth of $17.9 billion\u00a0derived largely from an iron-ore business.<\/p>

In her latest Medium post, Perkins vowed that she and Obrecht would donate the vast majority of their Canva equity. The couple plans to direct its giving through the Canva Foundation, and announced a program with nonprofit GiveDirectly that will distribute $10 million to the poor in Southern Africa.<\/p>

\u201cIt has felt strange when people refer to us as billionaires as it has never felt like our money,\u201d Perkins said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve always felt that we\u2019re purely custodians of it. It\u2019s long been our intention to give the wealth away.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It all began with millennial angst at user-unfriendly software. <\/p>\n

While teaching design programs part-time in 2008 when she was at university in Perth, Australia, Melanie Perkins grew frustrated with the clunky desktop-based tools she was helping her students 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Husband-Wife Team Worth $12 Billion After Latest Canva Funding Round<\/a><\/blockquote>